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To: cbkaty
Private school here...religious based.

Means very little, sorry. I've been a teacher in the public schools for 20 years. In my travels to various seminars for social studies I have met a large number of private Christian school teachers and they are just as liberal and globalist as their public school colleagues. They may be anti-abortion or not. But they know how to speak to parents and how to put on a good face. Those I have met have often spoken to me during the coffee breaks at such gatherings as to how they feel as if they're behind enemy lines and they never realize that they're speaking to the enemy (me!). In the same way that these social studies teachers feel they have to watch their step among the Christian conservatives well I do the same thing when teaching in the liberal public school system. Except that in the inner city I don't have to be quite so circumspect because there are so many devout christians in my classes.

So I'm in a sense freer than the liberals in the private schools. I have tenure and they usually don't. Believe me when I was in my first three years as a teacher I was a serious turtle and not a tiger. I flew way under their radar while still managing to look myself in the face and not compromise my integrity. My point is that just because you're in a private school and Christian to boot, don't feel too comfortable that the world and it's sin won't intrude. A good way to judge where your private school stands insofar as liberalism or globalism is to look carefully at what they're teaching in social studies about the Bill of Rights and specifically the 2nd and 10th Amendments and what they say overall about gun ownership and guns in general. You might be surprised, even astonished. Also check what they have to say about the United Nations!

14 posted on 07/12/2009 7:46:20 AM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: ExSoldier
A good way to judge where your private school stands insofar as liberalism or globalism is to look carefully at what they're teaching in social studies about the Bill of Rights and specifically the 2nd and 10th Amendments and what they say overall about gun ownership and guns in general. You might be surprised, even astonished.

Understood, I review all the history/social studies books....my son uses...he graduates next year and has been in this school since 1st grade. We are also in Texas....the Bill of Rights along with the Lord's prayer are posted in all classes. Period 1 is Bible Studies and has been for 11 years........

I am certain that there are a few liberals in the school....that is to be expected and they are considred examples, according to my son... He shows respect, but understands their objective...he has been taught at home to realize the consequenses of liberalism....I mean ya can't load em on a wagon and run em out of town...yet....

16 posted on 07/12/2009 8:33:34 AM PDT by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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